All the votes (for August) are [finally] in!
Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, August 2019 !!!!
The TechNet Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU! Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts), and the winners of each category are showered with love and attention from all corners of TechNet. See the links at the bottom, to find out more about the competition and how to enter.
We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon. The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category. The last column is just a few of the comments judges made during the judging process. In some cases, we have not obtained permission to use the judges names, so they have been reduced to initials.
My fellow wiki ninjas will be digging deeper into some of these articles in this blog series, so watch out for those. Any of our judges can exercise their right to veto an article, if they do not feel it meets minimum requirements for a medal. When this is the case, we will at least give an indication of the reason, so you understand why.
A big thank you also to the other authors who did not make the top three of each category.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
| ASP.NET Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Shweta Lodha | Creating ASP.NET Core Application with Docker Support | Sabah Shariq: "Great Content! Nice to see an article about RPC." Rajat Jaiswal: "Crisp and Clear. worth reading." Gaurav Kumar Arora: "Short but worth to read article, thanks Shweta for writing on Docker support" |
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SYED SHANU | Getting Started with gRPC Client and Server using ASP.NET Core | Gaurav Kumar Arora: "A well explained article, good work Shanu" Sabah Shariq: "Good. But will make it great if the introductory stuff in each sech was more detail." |
| BizTalk Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Peter Lindgren | BizTalk Server: "appTicketTimeout": How to Set SSO Application Ticket Timeout From XML file | Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article! A post must bring unique value, and essentially undocumented information best fit the TNWiki. It is informal community document which provide information you cannot find in the official docs, and it is very important and useful information. Great topic! Moreover, the article is well formatted and follows the TNWiki template structure. Well done!" Valerie Robb: "This may be helpful for SSO users - though care needs to be taken when using undocumented techniques since future versions or fixes to the product may affect the usage of this technique." |
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DBS14 | Migrating the BizTalk Server Business Rules Engine to Azure | Valerie Robb: "Good information for helping BRE users move to Azure in the absence of a direct migration path." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article! Detailed and comprehensive article, which is well formatted for the TNWiki, well written and simple to followed. It's definitely fits for Gold medal, and it was very hard to rank the articles in this category this month since all were very high quality. Great work. Well done!" |
| Microsoft 365 /O365 Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Ramakrishnan Raman | Create Electron application to interact with SharePoint using OAuth implicit grant flow | Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article as usual Ramakrishnan, Well organized and Valuable content with output animated image, I really love it! It would be great to 1. Add the "Back to top" link especially for long articles like yours! 2. Use numbered and bullet list instead of listing it manually! Keep it up bro, thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge in WIKI ?" Mikael Svenson: "Good write-up. Would be nice to explain why you pick Sites.Manage.All (because you read and write) and what this actually entails and that the actual SP permissions is what is being used." |
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Habibur Rahaman | SharePoint Online: HTML table creation with Microsoft Flow | Lasse Wedø: "A thourogh walk through" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article Habib, Well organized and Valuable content, I really love it! It would be great to 1. Add the "Back to top" link especially for long articles like yours! 2. Use numbered and bullet list instead of listing it manually! 3. Improve the image quality by setting the width and height of the uploaded image to the same original image! Keep it up bro, Thanks for sharing!" Mikael Svenson: "Nice and detailed explanation on how to turn data into a table using Flow and e-mail." |
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Nanddeep Nachan | Connect to MS Graph with MSGraphClient for SharePoint Framework | Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article as usual Nanddeep, Well organized and Valuable content with good references and valuable download link, I really appreciate adding the "back to top" link. plus, adding the image source! Keep it up bro, thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge in WIKI ?" Mikael Svenson: "I propose to be more consistent with MS Graph vs. Microsoft Graph, and the latter is correct and reads better. When granting scope permissions, highlighting that this is for all apps, not just this app is beneficial. Passing the whole context object, when you only need the graphFactory might not be best practice." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- SharePoint Online: Manage your organization assets library using C# by Arleta Wanat
Mikael Svenson: "While a good sample on using CSOM, would't the usecase be very limited - and admins would use the SPO admin cmdlets instead?"
Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article, Well organized and Valuable content!" - SharePoint Online: Get all list attachments using Powershell and CSOM by Arleta Wanat
Mohamed El-Qassas: "Awesome script and valuable article as usual Arleta Wanat! It would be great to 1. Add an "introduction" section to get amazing brief for your awesome script. 2. Add a "conclusion" section. 3. Add a "see also" section for your related scripts. Keep it up, thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge in WIKI ?"
Mikael Svenson: "As this is very similar to using C# and CSOM - it would be useful in a PowerShell scenario to perhaps use PnP cmdlets for most of the work where applicable. As that saves someone for ensuring csom dll's are installed/loaded for example. The article does not list pre-requisistes and only covers login using username/password, which is becoming rarer and rarer." - Enabling SharePoint Framework SPFx Field Customizer on an existing column in the list by Ram Prasad Meenavalli
Mikael Svenson: "Nice explanation on a global use-case very suitable for provisioning scenarios. Would be useful on the app install step to say you install on the global app catalog, and ensure that you already have it." - Swap or move your SharePoint Online root site collection with a Modern Communications site by Ram Prasad Meenavalli
Lasse Wedø: "Short and precise. Not to much fuzz"
Mikael Svenson: "Not sure this article helps explain anything more compared to the official documentation outside of providing screenshots. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/invoke-spositeswap?view=sharepoint-ps)" - Connect to a SharePoint site with multi factor authentication enabled using CSOM and PnP PowerShell by Ram Prasad Meenavalli
Lasse Wedø: "It would be nice to see the "old way" also, as a comparison, and an explenation of why it doesn't work."
Mikael Svenson: "The CSOM exmaple is a goot usecase in the article. While -WebLogin is nice for PowerShell a more useful option is -SPOManagementShell login due to cookies set etc." - SharePoint Online Using Indexed Property Bags to create searchable site properties by Ram Prasad Meenavalli
Mikael Svenson: "Nice article also explaining the enabling of property bag setting on modern sites. Would be smart to revert the setting once enabled. For PowerShell an easier approach to enable propertybag is to use "Set-PnPTenantSite -NoScriptSite:$false"." - PowerApps, Flow and SharePoint Online: Digitally Signing documents by Michaelle de las Alas
Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article Michaelle, Well organized and Valuable content, I really love it! It would be great to 1. Add the "Back to top" link especially for long articles like yours! 2. Improve the image quality by setting the width and height of the uploaded image to the same original image! 3. Add conclusion, see also, reference sections."
Mikael Svenson: "A nice Flow, but limited to one user, and you wouldn't trigger the signing Flow as per the example. Would be useful to show a real usecase where you signed a document in a library for example with your signature if available. And you don't want your signature filed stored so everyone can access it." - OneDrive for Business: Disable access requests on company level using C# and CSOM by Arleta Wanat
Mikael Svenson: "Nice article, but what is the admin usecase outside of using the oob admin UI for example? As this is not something you would do very often."
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Suthahar Jegatheesan | Learning: Azure Solutions Architect Expert | Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice detail explanation will helpful to the user who wants to do the certification. Only request to update the video links those are not working." Lasse Wedø: "A good collection of resources, but this feels more like a personal blog page. All this information more or less already available at Microsoft's learning site." Eric Berg: "thank you" |
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Jayendran Arumugam | AzureDevOps: CICD for PowerBI Reports | Lasse Wedø: "A good piece of information, language and grammar could be strengthened" Eric Berg: "cool stuff" Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "I think there are a bit too many pictures, and less text content that makes this article take forever to load." |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Dynamics 365 Business Central: Customer Table Bulk Delete | Lasse Wedø: "A good article. I would like to see an outlining/overview of the process first, then the step by step guide" Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Great work. A simple to followed "step-by-step" tutorial guide, which can be very useful when needed. The article is well formatted for the TNWiki. I recommend to add border to images which seems like part of the content, since sometimes the text seems like part of the image and vise versa. Well Done George!" |
| SharePoint Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Nanddeep Nachan | Get Your SharePoint 2019 Environment Ready For SPFx Development | Tiago Costa: "Very cool article on how to set a SP2019 env." John Naguib: "Very Nice thanks for sharing" Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Amazing effort and a clear post, this could be a great get-started reference post! (y)" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article as usual Nanddeep, Well organized and Valuable content! I love it! Please Fix the "Back to top" link it redirects me to the Edit page!" Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: "nice article! really nice description of how to start with the whole thing." Hezequias Vasconcelos: "It is a very good wiki explained with code.Perhaps some references could help with technical references." |
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Ram Prasad Meenavalli | Using Office UI-Fabric Shimmer instead of the traditional Loading or Progress indicators in SPFx | Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: "nice article, this would be what I will search for if I will go through the optimization topic for my development, nice!" John Naguib: "Thanks for sharing this tip" Hezequias Vasconcelos: "High level of technical excellence. Perfect." Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "This could be helpful in many websites, especially those that load data asynchronously!" Tiago Costa: "Nice article. Could add of create other articles about more SPFx events" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article Ram! Well organized and Valuable content! I love it! It would be great to add the "see also" section to list your related articles! I would also suggest adding your awesome code in the TechNet wiki gallery, then add it as a download link in your article!" |
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Arleta Wanat | SharePoint: Export your folder structure to XML using Powershell | Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The community is very fond of wikis of technical relevance. Great." Mohamed El-Qassas: "Awesome script, as usual, our PowerShell Queen! Well Organized Article, valuable content! It would be great to add the "conclusion" and "see also" sections to list your other related scripts!" Tiago Costa: "Important features into a re'org of a SharePoin Farm." Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: "nice article!" John Naguib: "Thanks for tis nice sharing" |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Mohsin_A_Khan | SQL Server: Understanding and Fixing Boot Page Corruption | Visakh16: "Quality article on how to recover from boot page corruption issue for database. The step by step illustration helps anyone stuck with the issue to use the article as a quick reference for fixing the issue. The article speaks about multiple options you can try to recover the database." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article from all aspects! The topic is very interesting and quality, it's high level of technical content, which is suitable for experts, and the article is well formatted for the TNWiki. I highly recommend everyone to read the article and play with the demo yourself. This is one of the best articles and it's a proud to have it in the TechNet Wiki. Awesome work Mohsin, well done!" |
| System Center Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Dujon Walsham | SCCM Software Update Dashboard - PowerBI Version | Adam Fowler: "Good details but some text issues as it's been copied from somewhere else I'm guessing, but still nice to have visuals matching the guide" Joseph Moody: "Great article! I will be using this in the future!" |
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Leon Laude | Installing SCOM 2019 from the command-line | Adam Fowler: "A very comprehensive guide that could be followed beginning to end without needing any extra info!" Joseph Moody: "As always, awesome stuff! Articles like this make the TechNet Wiki great!" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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by Karen Payne | Visual Studio: Copying files to Debug or Release folder | SYEDSHANU: "Once more nice and useful post karen :)" |
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by Karen Payne | Windows forms Master-detail view with add/edit/delete on SQL-Server with VB.NET/C# | SYEDSHANU: "Very Useful post Karen ,Thank you for sharing :)" |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Karen Payne | Entity Framework: Disconnected Entities | Jaliya Udagedara: "Nice article with a very good explanation to an important concept. Loved it!" Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "This is an important topic to discuss, well written!" |
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Karen Payne | Entity Framework database/Code First Enum support | Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "This post can be used anytime, and any project would want this." Jaliya Udagedara: "Great Article. Well explained." |
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Karen Payne | Entity Framework Windows Form validation | Jaliya Udagedara: "Good one!" |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Arleta Wanat | SharePoint Online: Manage organizational news sources using Powershell | Joseph Moody: "Good post! Very well formatted and concise!" Adam Fowler: "Simple and clear" |
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Arleta Wanat | SharePoint Online: Manage your organization assets library using Powershell | Adam Fowler: "Clearly explained with both stating what it is and extra useful details like explaining each switch on the command" Joseph Moody: "Like your other article, this one is clear and straight to the point! Thank you for posting these!" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - August 2019 |
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Subhro Majumder | Active Directory Certificate Services - Part 2: ADCS Overview | Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "A great reference post. Kudos, Subhro!" Joseph Moody: "Great post and thank you for following up on the first article! When might we see that third guide? :)" |
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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